The upcoming International Foster Care Organisation (IFCO) Conference “Pathways: A lifelong understanding of education, trauma, intervention and success" will take place on 1-4 September 2016 in Sheffield, UK.

In this article from the Guardian, David Akinsanya discusses his experience in boarding school where he and his classmates were forced to take anti-convulsant medication.

This story from the UK discusses how gangs recruit children as young as 8 years old to serve as weapons support for older gang members.  These children are recruited to hold knives for gang members, and they are often asked to attack others on members’ behalf. 

Global Strategy – Beyond Detention 2014-2019 is a document released by UNHCR, which aims to support governments to end the detention of asylum-seekers and refugees.  

Save the Children is seeking a candidate with proven management skills for the position of Deputy Head of Child Protection in its Farringdon, London U.K. office.

Save the Children is seeking a Child Protection Adviser to support country programmes in designing and implementing high quality programming to protect children and support their families.

Establishing the context of this study of adoptive parenthood and open adoption, MacDonald describes the legal, policy, and social frameworks that shape the experience of adoptive parenthood. The role of adoption in child welfare policy is identified, specifically in the UK and USA where it provides permanence for significant numbers of children in State care.

This report from Research in Practice examines the wellbeing of children in care in the UK and the approaches to measuring wellbeing.

This analysis was produced as part of an independent review into children's residential care in England and provides data on children living in all types of residential care facilities in the country as of 31 March 2015. 

On 28 October 2015 the Prime Minister of the UK told the House of Commons that he and the Secretary of State for Education had commissioned Sir Martin Narey to review residential care for children in England.